Why do people write?

They do it to remember the number to Pizza Hut, and what to get after paper towels. They do it to sing, to play, to remember. I think that writing is something that connects us all to one another. Whether it is a 2 year old's scribble, or a 70 year old's will. We all do it. We all write.

I write in Microsoft Office, I write in notebooks, and art pads.I write in piano chords, and in bitterness. It lets everything I feel, everything I worry about go somewhere where I can't reach, even if I want to. Mostly, the things I write, I also sing, and cry about. That's what hit me today.

I am an emotional writer.


How sad am I? To sit and sulk and write line after line of angry, hurt, happy, amazing, indifferent emotions on a piece of college ruled, and that's okay?! I think, that I think so. Sometimes, I write for hours, and erase everything out of guilt, and sometimes, I save that file to my desktop, so that in a few days or weeks, I can remember what I felt, and how much progress I have made since that day...

Today, I am writing to get my mind off of things that don't deserve my mind. A wise, very wise woman wrote to me this week, and she typed the most influential words I have ever read.

"..every time we try to change to be the person that everyone likes, it knocks out our individuality."

That is why I'm writing, because it's what I do, regardless of motive, it's who I am.